This May, MUBI presents a curated selection of cinema that spans the globe, from the high-stakes corporate satire of Park Chan-wook’s latest masterwork to the raw, intimate energy of Mitski’s live performances. The lineup also features a deep dive into the rich history of African filmmaking with the African Cinema at Cannes panorama, alongside award-winning new visions from Chile, Morocco, and beyond. 

Whether you are looking for legendary concert films or the future of animation, this month offers a front-row seat to the best of international cinema.

New releases

No Other Choice (Comedy, Crime, Drama) – Streaming exclusively on May 1

Dir. Park Chan-wook, 2025 

Looking for a job? When a happy family man is dismissed after twenty-five years of loyal service at a paper company, he finds the perfect solution to land his next role: truly eliminate the competition. 

No Other Choice premiered at the Venice International Film Festival in 2025. The film stars Lee Byung-hun (Inside Men, I Saw the Devil) and was later nominated at the Golden Globe Awards for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Actor for Lee Byung-hun. The film was selected as South Korea’s submission for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards®.

Mitski: The Land (Music, Documentary) – Streaming exclusively on May 1

Dir. Grant James, 2025 

Indie singer-songwriter Mitski takes the stage at Atlanta’s Fox Theater with a seven-piece band. Over the course of three nights in September 2024, their performances blend tracks from her latest album The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We with reimaginings of her earlier work. 

Directed by Grant James and mixed by her long-standing producer Patrick Hyland, Mitski: The Land preserves the rich, raw aura of having experienced these shows first-hand, whilst offering fans the opportunity to remember together or witness Mitski’s magic for the very first time.

Sirât (Drama, Thriller) – Streaming exclusively on May 15

Dir. Oliver Laxe, 2025 

A man and his son arrive at a rave lost in the mountains of Morocco. They are looking for Marina, their daughter and sister, who disappeared months ago at another rave. Driven by fate, they decide to follow a group of ravers in search of one last party, in the hope that Marina will be there. 

Sirât won the Jury Prize when it premiered at Cannes in 2025 and was nominated for Best International Feature Film and Best Sound at the 2026 Academy Awards®.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (Drama) – Streaming exclusively on May 15

Dir. Diego Céspedes, 2025 

1982. As an unknown disease begins to spread in a small mining town in the Chilean desert, gay men are accused of transmitting it through their eyes. Eleven-year-old Lidia, the only girl in the community, sets out in search of the truth. 

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo premiered in 2025 at the Cannes Film Festival, and was Chile’s selection for Best International Feature Film at the 2025 Academy Awards®.

Arco (Animation, Adventure, Sci-Fi) – Streaming exclusively on May 22

Dir. Ugo Bienvenu, 2025 

In 2075, Iris, a 10-year-old girl, sees a mysterious boy in a rainbow suit fall from the sky. It’s Arco. Iris will take him in and help him by any means possible to get home. 

Arco premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025 before being nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Academy Awards®. The voice cast for the film’s English dub features Mark Ruffalo, Will Ferrell, Andy Samberg and Natalie Portman.

Classics arriving on the platform

The Last Waltz (Documentary, Music) – Streaming on May 1

Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1978 

On Thanksgiving 1976, Canadian rock band The Band played its farewell concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom. They are joined by Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, the Staple Singers, Muddy Waters, and Neil Young for a landmark night of rock and roll performances. 

The Last Waltz was featured on The New York Times’ Best 1000 Films Ever Made, and was added to the National Film Registry in 2019.

AFRICAN CINEMA AT CANNES: A PANORAMA

This collection traces the presence of African filmmaking at the Croisette, bringing together landmark works from North and Sub-Saharan Africa that premiered at the festival. Spanning the 1960s to the present, the collection highlights a rich and varied cinematic history and charts a lineage of political urgency, formal innovation, and enduring cultural impact.

Abouna (Drama) – Streaming on May 8

Dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2002 

Tahir and Amine, who live in N’djamena, wake up one morning to learn that their father has left home. The brothers go looking for him and end up hanging about and going to the movies. At the cinema, they see their father on the big screen and decide to steal the reel as a memory of their absent dad.

Monangambeee (Drama) – Streaming on May 8

Dir. Sarah Maldoror, 1968 

In a Portuguese colonial prison in Angola, a woman visits her husband, who has been arrested for his suspected involvement in a revolutionary uprising. Their tender reunion angers the jailers, who inflict increasingly brutal abuse on the prisoners due to a linguistic and cultural misunderstanding.

Rafiki (Drama, Romance, LGBTQ+) – Streaming on May 12

Dir. Wanuri Kahiu, 2018 

In Nairobi, Kenya, Kena and Ziki long for a life beyond their circumstances. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the two girls support each other in pursuing their dreams within a conservative society. But Kena and Ziki face a difficult choice when love blossoms between them. 

A Screaming Man (Drama) – Streaming on May 12

Dir. Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, 2010 

Adam Ousmane is a pool attendant at a local resort. When the new managers decide to downsize, Adam loses his job to his own son, Abdel. Shattered by the turn of events, Adam is pressured into contributing to the Chadian war effort. With no money to speak of, the only asset he can donate is his son.